This Is Why I Don't Listen To Pop

[Gaz6231]

Works best in stereo. On the left we have Katy Perry, on the right we have Kesha (I refuse to write her name with a dollar symbol due to basic human decency).

People laugh when I say all pop music sounds the same and is specifically designed to emulate itself in an endless loop. This, I believe, proves my point. I haven't done a 'mashup' here, I've literally just played them at the same time.

Is this a sign that music is stagnating? How long is it going to be before 'pop' music is actually good again?

 

[BonsaiK]

So what. You could do the same thing with any 12-bar blues from the 30s or any rock or doo-wop from the 1950s.

 

[Megalodon]

How is "pop", music defined?
There has always been crap like this kicking about, but in a few years there will be something else in the charts that's equally contemptible.

 

[Vampire cat]

Oh, the similarities between these songs are not the problem... The problem is both lyrics are rubbish, the artists not very talented and the "beat" makes me want to strangle kittens. And I REALLY love kittens...

And seeing as "pop" music is "popular" music, it'll be good again once average Joe gets his ears on straight and can see crap for what it is... Crap...

 

[Gaz6231]

So what. You could do the same thing with any 12-bar blues from the 30s or any rock or doo-wop from the 1950s.

12 bar and doo-wop were specifically designed to let people who have never played/sang together have a common ground and be able to jam. This is blatant cookie-cutter bullshit at its worst.

Oh, the similarities between these songs are not the problem... The problem is both lyrics are rubbish, the artists not very talented and the "beat" makes me want to strangle kittens. And I REALLY love kittens...

What I hate the most is that somehow Kesha feels she knows how P Diddy feels in the morning. That's just presumptuous.

 

[Whichi]

Kesha reminds me of Dot MadTV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdtjMdqhpg

I had the misfortune of hearing her song when I worked at this one pizza shop a few months ago, and her song makes her sound as though as she's a drunken whore.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I feel this video is pretty relevant.
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But yeah, maybe pop music has a tendency to be all pretty similar. Even more similar than other genres of music, but if people who enjoy pop don't mind then there is nothing wrong with it. Music is meant to do something for the listener, so long as it does then its completed its goal.

 

[Swaki]

i think you mean you dislike top 40 charts, and that i agree with, its terrible.

 

[Drakmeire]

it's because all hit pop songs are written by the same guy.
don't believe me?
Proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin_production_discography
I hate the music industry.

 

[Gamegodtre]

Works best in stereo. On the left we have Katy Perry, on the right we have Kesha (I refuse to write her name with a dollar symbol due to basic human decency).

People laugh when I say all pop music sounds the same and is specifically designed to emulate itself in an endless loop. This, I believe, proves my point. I haven't done a 'mashup' here, I've literally just played them at the same time.

Is this a sign that music is stagnating? How long is it going to be before 'pop' music is actually good again?

well pop is different in other countries i think....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoFM-OJZjCk
i like this song even tho i cant understand it

 

[ENKC]

I would say that pop music is always this bad, but then once upon a time they had Abba.

 

[BonsaiK]

So what. You could do the same thing with any 12-bar blues from the 30s or any rock or doo-wop from the 1950s.

12 bar and doo-wop were specifically designed to let people who have never played/sang together have a common ground and be able to jam. This is blatant cookie-cutter bullshit at its worst.

Two songs out of the thousands of pop songs released every year have the same chord progression and rhythm, and "music is stagnating"? Sorry, no dice. All your example proves is how unimportant chord progressions and tempo are in the grand scheme of things. Everything has been done before anyway.

Blues and doo-wop weren't "designed", they just kind of "evolved". Then, after short periods of progress and then stagnation, other people took the music in new directions. Today's pop music is generally a distant relative of these styles, and sometimes even a close relative, spot the similarity:


Pop music is cookie-cutter music, of course it is. But it's never not been that. Innovation in popular music happens in very small steps, and for every two steps forward there's always a step back.

 

[Ham_authority95]

So what? If you want variety, don't listen to pop songs.

And music isn't stagnating(Pff), it's just that those songs where written by the same guy IMO.

 

[EmzOLV]

I tell you what I dislike about pop music - and when I say pop music, I don't generally mean the 'genre' of the song but more or less anything that is accepted by the majority, purchased, overplayed and in the top 100 (or so).

It's when songwriters get really bored and just start repeating words. Here are a few I can think of:

Justin Bieber - Baby (baby, baby, baby oooo and repeat)
Diana Vickers - Once (once, once, once, once and repeat)

There are so many more exactly like this (I've gone blank and don't have the mental capacity to remember them because I'm at work), and I understand usually a chorus may repeat or have the same line repeated, but COME ON. The same word? OVER AND OVER?

People who listen to this really enjoy this? Someone tell me honestly because it drives me mad.

EDIT: Oh and Cheryl Cole I dislike you so much. Fight for this love? Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight for this love epic yawn. I mean... boring?

 

[Gaz6231]

Justin Bieber - Baby (baby, baby, baby oooo and repeat)
Diana Vickers - Once (once, once, once, once and repeat)

Chorus of 'She's So Lovely' by Scouting For Girls: 'She's so lovely (x8)'

Anything by Black Eyed Peas usually follows the same thing. Take line, repeat four times, that's the chorus.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Innovation in popular music happens in very small steps, and for every two steps forward there's always a step back.

Hell, the only genre that I can name that actually significantly changes over a decade is Heavy Metal.

 

[comadorcrack]

NO ONE IS INNOCENT!

 

[EmzOLV]

Justin Bieber - Baby (baby, baby, baby oooo and repeat)
Diana Vickers - Once (once, once, once, once and repeat)

Chorus of 'She's So Lovely' by Scouting For Girls: 'She's so lovely (x8)'

Anything by Black Eyed Peas usually follows the same thing. Take line, repeat four times, that's the chorus.

Oh god see? Theres just SO many. I forgot about Scouting for Girls, and now it's going to be stuck in my mind.

I just don't get why the majority of people really enjoy songs which just involve the same word repeated? If I do a song and repeat the word pudding, would everyone buy it?

"Chocolate pudding, chocolate pudding, chocolate pudding..."
EmzOLV @ Number One! Woo!

 

[Andalusa]

I feel this video is pretty relevant.
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But yeah, maybe pop music has a tendency to be all pretty similar. Even more similar than other genres of music, but if people who enjoy pop don't mind then there is nothing wrong with it. Music is meant to do something for the listener, so long as it does then its completed its goal.

Damn, you beat me to it.

OT: Yeah, a lot of pop music sounds the same, but I'm betting it's the same with any genre. You'd be able to find 2 songs that sound almost identical, only the words are different.